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RING OF HONOR TELEVISION REPORT: DECADE OF EXCELLENCE TOURNAMENT CONTINUES, TRIPLE THREAT MATCH, AND TV CHAMPION IN ACTION

By Richard Trionfo on 2017-01-22 16:38:00

We are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and your announcers are Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuinness.

Match Number One:  Jonathan Gresham versus Marty Scurll in a Non Title Proving Ground Match

They lock up in a Greco Roman knuckle lock and Scurll backs Gresham into the corner and gives a clean break.  Gresham with a waist lock and wrist lock and he takes Scurll to the mat.  Gresham with a crucifix for a near fall into a side head lock.  Gresham mocks Scurll on the break.  Gresham with a single leg take down into a side head lock.

Scurll with a chop in the corner.   Gresham with a snap mare and waist lock but Scurll holds on to the ropes.  Gresham with arm drags and side head lock take down.  Scurll with a head scissors and Gresham escapes.  Scurll with a take down and Gresham with a head scissors.  Scrull escapes.  Gresham returns to the head scissors.  Scurll with a head stand and he escapes.  Gresham puts him in the head scissors again and Scurll gets to the ropes.

Gresham with a kick and Scurll sends Gresham to the mat.  Gresham goes to the floor and Scurll with a thrust kick to the head. 

We go to commercial.
We are back and Scurll works on the knees and he sets for a surfboard and he rakes the eyes and then drives the knees into the mat.  Gresham with a hammer lock but Scurll with an elbow and forearm.  They go back and forth with chops.  Scurll with a back elbow.  Scurll with a Japanese stranglehold but Gresham reverses.  Gresham sends Scurll to the apron and Scurll boxes the ears.

Scurrl misses a slingshot move into the ring and Gresham with an arm drag.  Gresham chops Scurll in the corner.  Scurll with an Irish whip but Gresham gets his boots up and he connects with a boot to the arm from the turnbuckles.

Gresham and Scurll with standing switches and Gresham with a knee drop to the arm and he gets a near fall with a rollup.  Scurll with a thrust kick to the knee.  Gresham with a somersault into a rana and he gets a near fall.  Gresham with a chop but Scurll with a forearm.  Scurll slams Gresham into the ropes and hits a butterfly side slam for a near fall.  Scurll goes for the crossface chicken wing but Gresham blocks it and he goes for the hand.  Scurll with a rake of the eyes and a kick to the knee.  Scurll works on the fingers and then he signals for the crossface chicken wing and he locks it in and Gresham taps out.

Winner:  Marty Scurll

We take a look at some footage from the Ring of Honor World Title Match from Wrestle Kingdom 11 between Kyle O’Reilly and Adam Cole.

We go to commercial.

We are back with comments from Jay Lethal and Jay Briscoe about their match in the Decade of Excellence Tournament.

Match Number Two:  Christopher Daniels versus Chris Sabin in a Decade of Excellence SemiFinal Match

They lock up and Daniels with a side head lock.  Daniels with a wrist lock and Sabin with a reversal.  Daniels with a side head lock and shoulder tackle.  Daniels with a cartwheel but Sabin with a wrist lock.  Daniels with an Irish whip and Sabin floats over in the corner.  Sabin with an enzuigiri and Daniels goes to the floor.  Sabin with a suicide dive.

They return to the ring and he kicks Daniels.  Sabin with a snap mare and fist drop to Daniels.  Sabin with a reverse chin lock.  Daniels with elbows but Sabin sends Daniels to the floor.  Sabin with a head scissors to Daniels on the floor.  Sabin is distracted by Kazarian at the announce table and Daniels with a flatline into the guardrails.

We go to commercial.
We are back and Daniels with a slingshot elbow drop for a near fall.  Daniels with a delayed vertical suplex.  Daniels with a knee in the back followed by a rear chin lock.  Sabin with an elbow but Daniels with a reverse atomic drop and enzuigiri.  Sabin counters Angel’s Wings with a rana and both men are down.

Sabin with a back heel kick and running forearms.  Daniels with a sunset flip but Sabin rolls through and kicks Daniels.  Sabin with a running kick from the apron and he hits a cannonball.  Sabin goes up top  and hits a missile drop kick.  Sabin with a dominator for a near fall.  Sabin with a back heel kick.  Daniels with a kick and clothesline to the back of the head.  Daniels with an Arabian press for a near fall.

Daniels applies the Koji Clutch but Sabin gets his foot on the ropes to get the hold released.  Sabin with an enzuigiri and a springboard tornado DDT and Sabin gets a near fall.  Daniels with a crucifix for a near fall.  Sabin with a super kick and then they exchange punches and chops.  Daniels with a Samoan drop and both men are down.  Daniels misses the Best Moonsault Ever but he lands on his feet.  Daniels with a uranage and he hits the Best Moonsault Ever for the three count.

Winner:  Christopher Daniels

We go to commercial.

We are back with a look at the situation between Steve Corino and Cody Rhodes.

Steve says that he has failed the family.  It took him too long to figure it was not about him.  It was about keeping his spirit out of the company.  Kevin says that Steve has not failed him.  They have tried to bring him back and finally he understands.  He says that Kevin is welcome back in the family.

Match Number Three:  Dragon Lee versus KUSHIDA versus Will Ospreay

Ospreay pushes Lee into KUSHIDA and then Ospreay gives Lee an arm drag.  KUSHIDA with an arm drag to Ospreay and Lee with an arm drag to KUSHIDA.  Lee with a back heel kick to Ospreay and then he gets a near fall on a rollup on KUSHIDA.  KUSHIDA with a sunset flip to Ospreay but Ospreay rolls through and misses a round kick.  Ospreay goes for a standing moonsault but KUSHIDA moves.  Lee jumps over a leg sweep attempt by Ospreay.  Lee misses a round kick and then he elevates KUSHIDA into a head scissors on Ospreay but Ospreay with a cartwheel.  Ospreay with a head scissors to Lee and Lee with a cartwheel.  Lee with a head scissors to KUSHIDA and KUSHIDA tries for a cartwheel but he rolls through.  Ospreay with a springboard back flip and everyone does their superhero landing.

We go to commercial.

We are back with a look back at the O’Reilly/Cole match instead of the match that we had prior to commercial.

Now we return to the triple threat match and KUSHIDA sends Ospreay to the apron.  Ospreay with a shoulder and he comes back into the ring and he goes for a handspring move against the ropes but KUSHIDA kicks Ospreay in the midsection.  Lee with a kick to KUSHIDA followed by a chop and kick.  KUSHIDA with a reverse atomic drop and drop kick to the knee.  Lee avoids a drop kick and applies an STF into a rear chin lock.  KUSHIDA with a hammer lock using the feet and he drops back to the mat.  KUSHIDA with a cross arm breaker but Ospreay kicks KUSHIDA.  Ospreay sends Lee to the floor.

KUSHIDA with an arm wringer to Ospreay and then he puts the arm on the mat and stomps on the hand.  KUSHIDA with an arm bar to Ospreay.  Ospreay with punches and forearms but KUSHIDA with a kick to the injured arm.  KUSHIDA misses a handspring back elbow.  Ospreay with a one arm handspring senton.  Ospreay with a running elbow into the corner and he sends KUSHIDA into the turnbuckles and hits a springboard forearm.  KUSHIDA goes to the floor and Ospreay with a Sasuke Special to KUSHIDA>  Lee with a plancha onto Ospreay.

All three men are back in the ring and Lee chops KUSHIDA and then he hits splashes on Ospreay and KUSHIDA in the corner.  Ospreay with a back heel kick.  Ospreay with a guillotine but Lee counters into a suplex attempt but Ospreay with another counter into a rana.  KUSHIDA is sent to the floor.  Ospreay goes for a shooting star press off the apron but KUSHIDA moves and Ospreay lands on his feet.  Ospreay with a back heel kick but KUSHIDA with a forearm to the head.

Lee leaps over the top rope and he hits a head scissors on KUSHIDA that sends him onto Ospreay with a senton. 

We go to commercial.

We are back and Lee with a Northern Lights suplex to KUSHIDA followed by a delayed vertical suplex into a sit out power bomb for a near fall.  Lee with a forearm to Ospreay and he fires back.  They continue the exchange.  Lee with a kick but Ospreay with a jumping knee.  Ospreay with a kick and flip neck breaker to KUSHIDA.  Ospreay goes to the turnbuckles and hits the triple jump shooting star press.  Ospreay goes up top but Lee crotches him and Lee with a double stomp.

Lee goes for a deadlift German on KUSHIDA and hits it but Ospreay breaks up the cover with a shooting star press.  Ospreay chops Lee and Lee chops back.  Ospreay with a series of strikes but Lee with a jumping knee and reverse rana on Ospreay.  Lee goes for a power bomb on KUSHIDA but KUSHIDA escapes and hits La Mistica and then he applies the Hoverboard Lock.  Ospreay with a spinning kick to KUSHIDA and then Lee.  Ospreay goes for the springboard cutter but KUSHIDA counters into a Hoverboard lock.  Ospreay with a rollup for a near fall.  Ospreay with a kick and KUSHIDA with a Pele Kick.  KUSHIDA with a tornado DDT followed by a package Fisherman’s Buster and he gets the three count.

Winner:  KUSHIDA

We go to the end of the match between Adam Cole and Kyle O’Reilly when Cole became the three time ROH champion.

We go to credits.

 

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